Tragic pleasure from Homer to Plato

Tragic pleasure from Homer to Plato / Rana Saadi Liebert, Bard College, New York.

"This book offers a resolution of the paradox posed by the pleasure of tragedy by returning to its earliest articulations in archaic Greek poetry and its subsequent emergence as a philosophical problem in Plato's Republic. Socrates' claim that tragic poetry satisfies our 'hunger...

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Main Author: Liebert, Rana Saadi (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Plato. > Republic.
Greek drama (Tragedy) > History and criticism.
Emotions in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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